From the Hill: MP speaks to flooding, climate crisis
Last week, in a single one-day rain event, lives were lost, homes destroyed, and livelihoods ruined in several areas of southwestern British Columbia. Critical highways and rail lines were badly damaged, disrupting almost all supply chains between the Pacific coast and the rest of the country. Through it all there have been...
Selkirk College Mir Lecture Presents Vision for Way Through Climate Crisis
Selkirk College will be (virtually) welcoming Canadian author and activist Seth Klein to a Mir Lecture Series event on November 30. The Vancouver-based climate academic and author of the recently released A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency takes an approach that is not doom-and-gloom. Says Mir Centre for...
Small zinc fire at Trimac
Three Montrose firefighters and 11 Trail firefighters, along with Teck Fire Rescue responded to a zinc fire Sunday morning, according to Kootenay Boundary Regional Fire Rescue Cpt. Grant Tyson. He said the call came in at 8:30 a.m., and responders arrived within 10 minutes to find a very minor, but very messy, fire. "The...
COVID-19 vaccine available for kids aged 5 - 11
Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, have issued the following statement regarding Health Canada’s approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11: “British Columbia welcomes the news that Health Canada has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 pediatric vaccine for...
Temporary changes to recycling in the RDKB due to highway closures from flooding
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary wants residents to know about temporary changes to recycling while transportation routes are closed or slowed due to the recent extreme rainfall and damage to highways. On the Kootenay side of the region including in the municipalities of Fruitvale, Montrose, Trail, Warfield and...
Confidence the key to new job training programs at the Skills Centre
Finding the confidence to learn new skills and take the steps to getting a job is at the core of four new employment programs at the Skills Centre. “The programs all have a crucial element of building people’s confidence to take the steps they need to find the job they want,” says Jaime Malcolm, programs manager at the Skills...
Teck On the Home Front: Commodities and Community
Teck Trail Operations is proud to commemorate 125 years of continuous smelting with an eight-part series that explores the company’s significant role in the region and industry, from the gold rush to becoming one of the world’s largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes. Since 1896, visionary...
God is a Scottish Drag Queen is back with a Christmas Special!
Trail and District Arts Council is thrilled to bring back this epic performer to the Kootenays! As The Bailey Theatre continues renovations, Rossland Miners’ Hall welcomes critically acclaimed and award-winning Canadian comedian Mike Delamont to the stage. He brings you God, dressed in an all-new holiday power suit, come down...
Local MLAs say students at Selkirk College will benefit from new technology and trades equipment
New Democrat MLAs Brittny Anderson and Katrine Conroy, both alumni of Selkirk College, say today’s students will gain hands-on skills thanks to new technology and trades equipment upgrades at local campuses. “Our communities rely on graduates from Selkirk College for all the knowledge and skills they bring to their careers,”...
Warfield community bands together to support sick baby boy
The Warfield community has rallied to raise almost $12,000 for 5-month-old Thatcher Stephens after being diagnosed with Stage 4S Neuroblastoma. Thatcher's tiny body has tumours in his kidney, liver, skin, head and near his brain. Thankfully, this cancer is curable and Thatcher will undergo two cycles of chemotherapy with a ...
